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China pays respects to old guard reformer

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On Sunday, Gao Shangquan, former deputy director of the now dissolved State Commission for Restructuring the Economy, died at the age of 92.

Since then, Chinese media and policy advisors have been mourning his passing.

Despite his relatively modest official title, Gao was a titan of China’s e...